Jorge Román

Queen of Coal (2025)

A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old superstition rooted in a folk tale that for 80 years forbid all women from entering the mine's underground gal ...

La luz mala (2022)

Faced with the loss of sponsors on the radio, René and Walter decide to take their program on UFOs to TV. Fate seems to accompany them, and that day one falls in the Esteros del Iberá. A TV presenter from the capital joins them in this reckless search. ...

Unbalanced (2021)

Ronin conurbano (2020)

A Sacred Gaucho (2019)

A farm laborer crosses the mythical nature of the Iberá Wetlands in search of a child he lost in an accident. To find them, he has to embody a hero called "Gauchito Gil", a local Robin Hood, and therefore die like the myth: hanged from his ankles. ...

Killing the Dead (2019)

Paraguay 1978, during Stroessner's dictatorship, Pastor and Dionisio work burying bodies illicitly. In Argentina, the World Cup is being held. One morning, among the bodies, they find Mario, who is still alive. They know they must kill him but the problem ...

Monos (2019)

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. ...

Until We Fall (2019)

Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how it used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their child. The police said it was a drowning accident. Yet the truth is that their little boy's body was never found. Lucas, ten years old. How easy it all woul ...

Being Awake (2017)

Santiago wakes up in the desert and goes to his father's house who receives him at gunpoint. Ernesto decides to sacrifice Arón, the dog, but phantasmagoric apparitions shake the family's foundations. ...

Los del suelo (2015)

Remo Venica and Irmina Kleiner, Agrarian League activists in northern Argentina in the 1970s, were forced into exile in the mountains for four years. They gave birth to their first daughter and learned to live off what the mountains had to offer. Today, ha ...

Ulises (2011)

The emotional life story of a Peruvian immigrant in Chile is the subject of this nuanced character study of a man uprooted from home by economic necessity and suffering loneliness and dislocation. Higher wages can't fill the void created by separation from ...

Campo Cerezo (2009)

Guided by a fortune teller's revelation, Russian Countess Ivana Malova arrives in Argentina intending to raise beautiful Angora goats, animals not native to the area, on a small piece of land called "Campo Cerezo" (Cherry Field). There live Doña Juana Cer ...

La León (2007)

Deep in the lush river jungles of Argentina, Alvaro lives a solitary existence fishing and harvesting reeds. What sets him apart from the rest of his village is that he is gay. There are no other gay men in his world, his only means of expression is with t ...

Northeast (2005)

An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their hopeless village in search for a better life changes both of their lives forever. ...

Mi mejor enemigo (2005)

After losing their bearings, a group of Chilean soldiers learns some lessons about their enemy's humanity in this dark comedy set during the 1970s war between Chile and Argentina. Digging in where they are, the troop soon discovers a nearby Argentinean pla ...

El bonaerense (2002)

Zapa is a locksmith in a remote and quiet little town, lost somewhere deep in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and gets him a spot to join the Provincial Police as an aspiring of ...

Ángel, la diva y yo (2000)

Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act. ...

Felicidades (2000)

Three stories of ordinary people intersect on Christmas Eve: a dentist desperate to find his son's toy; a writer who is not happy and decides to look for the woman of his dreams; and a doctor who intends to flirt with a Spanish woman. ...

Nuclear Apocalypse (1999)

A man whose Argentine father died in the Falklands War decides to take the building of the Congress of Argentina, holding the English ambassador, the vice president and the parliamentarians hostage, demanding in exchange for his release that the debt he co ...

Cenizas del paraíso (1997)

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth. ...